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The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (Hainish Cycle, #9)

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Anyone remember Welcome to Nightvale?

So I've just started listening to audiobooks and tbh I was just making an exception for ONE book. Except now it's become a part of my routine and I look forward to listening to it. Now, this brings me to the title of this post: Welcome to Nightvale. Anyone remember it?! It was the first "podcast" i was ever exposed to and i was an avid listener for a few years, found a bunch of cool songs, and it always put me to sleep (in the best way). So it kind of reminds me of the same feeling I have now that i've discovered audiobooks.

I have three questions related to this topic... was anyone else a fan? And, has anyone found any books that captures the whimsical (sometimes dark) absurdity that was Welcome to Nightvale? Third question.... I know we have epistolary novels... but what about a novels written as radio broadcasts? That would be kind of cool. Right? Maybe? Any books like that in existence?

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The Birthday of World Titles in God’s Society - Thoughts from 62% (page 349)

This might be most difficult story for me to read so far (there’s only one more left after this - Paradises Lost). Ursula K Le Guin really isn’t afraid to plop you straight into a new foreign world with no explanation and slowly you read through to keep up and understand the values of the new culture / world she put you on. Besides the culture highlighting arranging marriages to embody God and having a person embody God and assigning the eldest child to fight in wars and defend against the other in the name of god… I wanted to focus on something much more mundane 😂 There are unique names meant to sound foreign and outside anything on Earth in real life as usual, but there are people with titles… I’m not quite sure why people are assigned these certain words yet, but I know these indicate “Lords and ladies were God’s relations, descendants of the ancestors of God. God’s children were called lord and lady too, except the two who were betrothed. We were just called Tazu and Ze until we became God.” (Tazu is MC’s betrothed and Ze is MC.)

Examples so far: “Lady Clouds”, “Lady Sweetness”, “Lord Seven”, “Lady Mother” (another way to address God the person/vessel?), “Lord Drowning” (the eldest son who is also called Babam Omimo which is translated to Lord Drowning?), “Lord Festival”, “Lady Pin”, “Lord Idiot” (a 12 year old boy designated as “idiot” because he’s foolish?)

The vessel is separate as currently they are considered God - the Lady Mother and there is a reference to “God the Father” who may be the more spiritual and intangible form of their god OR another physical vessel who happens to be male. I’m not quite certain still on God the Father.

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Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

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Bronze: Finished 5 Main Quest books.

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May 16, 2026

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Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

reading this in release order and this actually takes place before MB 5 Network Effect which is a bit unusual, but i like the little break from the very loaded installment of Network Effect! Like other people said, it really highlights the differences between MB before Network Effect and during/after. It was just as silly and sarcastic in this more encompassed story after it joins Dr. Mensah at Preservation 🙂‍↕️

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Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

Martha Wells

No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall. When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people—who knew?) Yes, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans! Again!

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The Sword of Kaigen

M.L. Wang

A mother struggling to repress her violent past, A son struggling to grasp his violent future, A father blind to the danger that threatens them all. When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength to defend their empire? Or will they tear each other apart before the true enemies even reach their shores? High on a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful warriors in the world, superhumans capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. For hundreds of years, the fighters of the Kusanagi Peninsula have held the Empire’s enemies at bay, earning their frozen spit of land the name ‘The Sword of Kaigen.’ Born into Kusanagi’s legendary Matsuda family, fourteen-year-old Mamoru has always known his purpose: to master his family’s fighting techniques and defend his homeland. But when an outsider arrives and pulls back the curtain on Kaigen’s alleged age of peace, Mamoru realizes that he might not have much time to become the fighter he was bred to be. Worse, the empire he was bred to defend may stand on a foundation of lies. Misaki told herself that she left the passions of her youth behind when she married into the Matsuda house. Determined to be a good housewife and mother, she hid away her sword, along with everything from her days as a fighter in a faraway country. But with her growing son asking questions about the outside world, the threat of an impending invasion looming across the sea, and her frigid husband grating on her nerves, Misaki finds the fighter in her clawing its way back to the surface.

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The Wedding Witch (The Ex Hex, #3)

Erin Sterling

The New York Times bestselling author of The Ex Hex and The Kiss Curse brightens up the Winter Solstice with another delightfully spooky novel following Bowen Penhallow and the girl he feels strangely drawn to—especially when she becomes his only hope of salvation after a strong spell sends them to a Yuletide celebration... more than 50 years in the past. Bowen Penhallow has always been a loner, studying dark and ancient magic on a mountaintop in Wales. He prefers it that way, but when his friend Colin—who happens to be a ghost—asks him to attend a Yuletide wedding at a grand estate deep in the Welsh countryside, Bowen reluctantly agrees. Tamsyn Bligh is not a witch, but she makes her living off of them. As a procurer and seller of magical items, Tamsyn’s business is not always above board, but she’s been trying to fix that (mostly.) Bowen is an occasional customer—as well as the star of several of Tamsyn’s dirtiest dreams—but she’s been around enough witches to know that, as a human, getting involved with one is not the smartest idea. She’s finagled an invite to the Witchy Wedding of the Century in the hopes of finally making a score big enough to retire. Just one priceless magical artifact from Tywyll House would set her up for life. But Tamsyn isn’t the only one sneaking about in Tywyll House, and the mix of a very strong spell combined with a wedding mishap transports Bowen and Tamsyn into Tywyll House’s past, to the Yuletide Celebration of 1958. As Bowen and Tamsyn work together to get back to the present, they must also face off with the origins of Tywyll House’s haunting, the suspicions of their fellow witches…oh, and the fact that somewhere between the mistletoe and the bonfire, they might be falling in love.

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The Kiss Curse (The Ex Hex, #2)

Erin Sterling

Welcome to Spooky Season!! The follow-up to Erin Sterling’s New York Times bestselling hit The Ex Hex features fan favorite Gwyn and the spine-tinglingly handsome Wells Penhallow as they battle a new band of witches and their own magical chemistry. Gwyn Jones is perfectly happy with her life in Graves Glen. She, her mom, and her cousin have formed a new and powerful coven; she’s running a successful witchcraft shop, Something Wicked; and she’s started mentoring some of the younger witches in town. As Halloween approaches, there’s only one problem—Llewellyn “Wells” Penhallow. Wells has come to Graves Glen to re-establish his family’s connection to the town they founded as well as to make a new life for himself after years of being the dutiful son in Wales. When he opens up a shop of his own, Penhallow’s, just across the street from Something Wicked, he quickly learns he’s gotten more than he bargained for in going up against Gwyn. When their professional competition leads to a very personal—and very hot—kiss, both Wells and Gwyn are determined to stay away from each other, convinced the kiss was just a magical fluke. But when a mysterious new coven of witches come to town and Gwyn’s powers begin fading, she and Wells must work together to figure out just what these new witches want and how to restore Gwyn’s magic before it’s too late.

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Books that remind you of video games

I was wondering if any of you guys have books that remind you of/give the same vibes as video games you have played?

I feel like a lot of the RPGs, cozy games, and visual novels I play have a lot in common with the books I read, so I was wondering if anyone else felt the same.

I am so excited that T. Kingfisher is writing the Astarion prequel novel. I am a huge fan of Kingfisher, and I am a huge player of D&D and BG3, so I am the exact target audience. I have also made comments in the past that a lot of her books, especially the Paladin series and Nettle and Bone, give off D&D campaign vibes, and I would love to play a campaign set in one of her worlds. I love a good questing party. So I think she is the perfect author.

I recently read Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous by Autumn K England, which was marketed as Stardew Valley vibes, and I heavily agree.

I also read The Sword of Kaigen a while back, and it reminded me so, so, so much of Fire Emblem: Three Houses (if anyone is a fan of FE3H pls say so, it's my favorite game of all time!). Obviously, there are the military and school aspects, but the clans and their inherited powers reminded me so much of the Crest system and the pressures that came with it. And Mamoru and Hiroshi remind me a lot of Glenn and Felix :(

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